Stiff Upper Lip (album)
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| Studio album by AC/DC | ||||
| Released | 28 February 2000 | |||
| Recorded | September–October 1999 at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, blues rock | |||
| Length | 46:57 | |||
| Label | East West | |||
| Producer | George Young | |||
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| Entertainment Weekly | C+ |
| NME | (9/10) |
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| Video by AC/DC | |
| Released | 2001 |
| Recorded | Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany, 14 June 2001 |
| Genre | Hard rock, blues rock |
| Length | 140 min. |
| Label | Warner Music Vision |
| Director | Nick Morris |
| Producer | Rocky Oldham |
Stiff Upper Lip is an album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's thirteenth internationally released studio album and the fourteenth to be released in Australia. The album was co-produced by George Young, older brother of Malcolm and Angus Young. The album was re-released in the US on 17 April 2007 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series. It was re-released in the UK in 2005.
The Young brothers began writing songs for what would become Stiff Upper Lip in the summer of 1997 in London and the Netherlands with Malcolm on guitar and Angus on drums, and by February 1998 the songs were completed. The band had planned on recording a new album with Canadian Bruce Fairbairn, who had produced the enormously successful The Razors Edge and AC/DC Live, but Fairbairn died in May 1999. The Youngs turned to their older brother George, who had produced 1988's Blow Up Your Video as well as the band's early albums with Harry Vanda, and Mike Fraser, who had co-produced 1995's Ballbreaker, to complete Stiff Upper Lip.
The album was recorded and mixed at Bryan Adams' Warehouse Studios in Vancouver, Canada between September and November 1999 with a total of 18 songs recorded in all. In 2000, bassist Cliff Williams remarked to VH1's Behind the Music, "It's a killer album. It was a very easy-to-record album in as much as Malcolm and Angus had everything ready to go, so we basically just had to come along and perform as best we could." According to Arnaud Durieux's memoir AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll, Malcolm takes a rare guitar solo on "Can't Stand Still" while Angus does the backing vocals on "Hold Me Back." The album delves even deeper into the band's blues roots than its predecessor Ballbreaker and features a remarkably clean sound. In an interview with Alan Di Perna of Guitar World, singer Brian Johnson commented on working with George Young:
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